Ovarian and sperm health

To have a team of researchers in Poland say that polluted air may be chipping away at women’s ability to have children is like plunging a dagger through hope. To learn that breathing dirtier air may reduce the number of eggs a woman has left, leads to despair, given the fact that our cities regularly exceed recommended air-quality limits, in the words of the researchers.

Air quality expert, Sotirios Papathanasiou, focusing on men’s health, says oxidative damage in sperm leads to DNA fragmentation. He goes on to state in grave detail how poor IAQ might be a cause of infertility in men, in the first place, and that successful conception might not be enough, for poor air quality could have already done the damage, manifesting in the lead up to child birth, in the form of pre-natal mortality and, after delivery, in the form of birth defects.

IVF expert, Dr Nahed Hammadieh and air filtration expert, Dr Iyad Al-Attar add a different dimension by focusing on sandstorms and how they are contributing to poor reproductive health, unless the HVAC industry and allied sectors, including the buildings sector, intervene with intent and urgency to prevent a ticking timebomb from exploding.

No fear-mongering, this.